Potassium ยท Observed attack

AS210413 TCP flood on 45.157.55.234 | 2026-09-29 12:48:07Z

ยท Event #9373

WhatsApp

Country-level precision. botnet.cl stores the target country, never a city or coordinates, so the marker sits at the country's center.

What this method does

Potassium vector 4 creates TCP stream connections. Destination ports use option 7; an omitted value selects randomized ports.

All TCP connection flood observations
Observed
2026-09-29T12:48:07.619Z
Recorded

Recorded 135ms after observation

Affected network
45.157.55.234/32
Network operator
SmartLink for Internet Services LTDAS210413
Method
TCP connection floodVector 4
Protocol
tcp
Destination port
443
Commanded duration
30s
Observed via
89.185.82.38

All controllers with retained sightings of this order. Older records may have incomplete source coverage.

Geolocation data
ipinfo-lite ยท 2026-09

Snapshot taken at ingestion; it is never re-resolved later.

botnet.cl reports infrastructure it observed. An address appearing here identifies a target or a relay, not a person responsible for the attack.